Poisonous gas

(used for killing, injuring or incapacitating human beings)

In the August of 1914 the French unleashed tear gas on the Germans which worked as an irritant, this marked the first use of a poison gas.  Because of this attack, the Germans took it to the next level and created a poisonous gas that could kill…chlorine gas.  The Germans launched the gas at the French Canadians and British who stood there spot in the trenches because they thought that it was just a smoke so the Germans could move forward, but they were incorrect.  Once the chlorine gas was inhaled it would go into your lungs and mix with the water in your lungs and make a hydrochloric acid and eat away on your lungs.  This wasn’t even the worst, there would be even more dangerous gasses being made, for example, mustard gas, phosgene, benzyl bromide, etc.  -even though it was one the most feared types of weapons a number of fatalities were 91,000 out of 1,250,000 casualties, half of these fatalities being Russian. But the gas would always hide everything from sight and people had to abandon the trench because they were becoming incapable of fighting because of inhaling the gas.  After the first couple uses of these gasses people easily figured out how to counter it by wearing gas masks.